- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 21:51:54 +0100
- To: Gregory Williams <greg@evilfunhouse.com>, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On 01/08/2009 18:33, "Gregory Williams" <greg@evilfunhouse.com> wrote:
> On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Danny Ayers wrote:
>
>> Also, what would be my best bet for mapping country codes ("US" etc)
>> to the country's entry in dbpedia (or nearby)? What I'm aiming for is
>> something like:
>>
>> [ a IPMapping;
>> ipAddressRange "123.321.0.0";
>> country <#country> ]
>>
>> <#country> a Country;
>> countryCode "XX" .
>>
>> Suggestions on whether I should retain/modify the original indexing
>> and appropriate vocabs appreciated too :)
>
>
> The DAML iso countries ontology[1] has terms for this:
>
> <http://www.daml.org/2001/09/countries/iso#GB>
> iso:code "GB" ;
> iso:name "UNITED KINGDOM" ;
> a iso:Country .
>
> .greg
>
> [1] http://www.daml.org/2001/09/countries/iso
>
>
>
And there is a Linked Data site (with SPARQL endpoint) of the UN Locode data
at
http://unlocode.rkbexplorer.com/id/GB
with some co-ref, although sameas.org has more co-ref.
Also, if you were to generate more co-ref data, I would be very pleased to
receive it to put in sameas.org
Thanks.
Hugh
Received on Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:52:44 UTC